Configure GRUB

[norman]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:19 -0200, Jan Kauffman wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 3:58 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>         Windows doesn't like _thinking_ it's not on the first
>         partition (suddenly
>         realizing that this is _not_ true of Vista - as mine happily
>         boots a form
>         of Vista for the HP recovery partition which is #2).  It's
>         easy enough to 
>         make grub tell it the appropriate lies :-)
>         
>         However, I think you're right about booting it off a logical
>         partition
>         (again, may not apply to Vista).
>         
>         fwiw, if it _will_ boot from a logical, the stanza should be
>         something like: 
>         
>          title           Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
>          map             (hd0,4) (hd0,0)
>          root            (hd0,0)
>          makeactive
>          chainloader     +1
>  
> I did this and when I tryed to boot from windows, I got " Error 11:
> Unrecognized device string"
> Is there any way to move my hda5 to hda2 or something like that? Maybe
> this will work...

Surely the changes quoted are only needed when there are 2 hard drives,
one with windows and the other with Ubuntu. I am convinced that Ubuntu
will take care of things provided that the correct procedure is carried
out. First install windows and then install all available up grades. Now
follow with Ubuntu and try to re boot.

Norman